Nigeria: 'Sex Workers Arrest Hampers Anti-HIV Work in FCT'

11 April 2013

Continued clampdown on commercial sex workers, intravenous drug users (IDUs) and men who have sex with men in the FCT is hampering efforts to control the spread of HIV/AIDS, proponents lament.

Female sex workers, drug users and men who sleep with men (MSM) are three of the highest-risk group of HIV in the FCT, and rates of infection among them is interwoven with that of the general public, said Angela Emenalo, community mobilization officer at FCT Agency for Control of AIDS (FACA).

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